TEREK

(1) Prov., N. Caucasus republic (438° 20’ N., 44° H.), bordering on Caspian Sea; agriculture, cattle raising, viticulture (2,000,000 gal. wine annually), agriculture, and fishing are chief industries; cap. Vladikavkaz. Pop. at Zilga-Khokh, pierces mountain range by Dariel Gorge, flows N.W. then E., and enters Caspian Sea by delta; length, 380 m. wright, though not of Rom. birth, - probably African; brought to Rome as slave of Terentius Lucanus and soon obtained freedom after being kindly treated and well educated by his master; first play produced, 166, last in 160, after which he left Rome to travel in Greece; mode of death uncertain, there are varying accounts, all of doubtful value. In spite of his foreign origin, T.’s Latin js pure and elegant and was admired by such severe critics as Cicero and Quintilian. He drew his plots from Menander and other Gk. playwrights of New Comedy. He wrote six plays, Andria, Hecyra, Heauton in Les Fourberies de Scapin.